Pleroma is Dying
The last social control media that I joined was Pleroma (because gnusocial.de shut down). It was in Pleroma.site, an instance run by the same person who had offered hosting to Techrights in 2018.
Pleroma never thrived and its vision never quite materialised. At the time there was infighting in the Pleroma project, partly because some people didn't try to exclude "nazis" (sometimes actual Nazis) from downloading, installing and using Pleroma.
Looking back at how things have progressed since Pleroma.site died (first stewardship passed, then everything lost for good because of hardware problems), it does not look good. Based on a survey, only about 3,000 people are still active (as per the past 6 months' activity) across all known (tracked by the-federation.info) instances.
In the past month less than 2,000 people were bothering to post anything:
You can see the trajectory; it'll go below 1,000 some time soon.
Losing Pleroma.site (all users their lost their accounts) was not really a loss, just a premature exit or blessing in disguise. Those sorts of sites or platforms are time-wasting gremlins and they never last long, they're a ticking timebomb that the administrators can detonate at any time, with or without prior notice. These platform offer no fame, only illusion of it (addiction). They're volatile and erratic. As an aside (as shown below), almost all Pleroma users are now in the same instance (Poast). Not many instances have prevailed. █
